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This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and
practices from the 1930s to present day. The authors use previously
unexplored archival materials to bring to light how a broad range
of Nordic actors have engaged with international human rights
globally and at a European level and how these norms have been
taken up and interpreted in the region. Do the Nordic countries
warrant the label 'global good Samaritans' in human rights
promotion? Is the Nordic welfare state a close to perfect
realisation of human rights norms? Or do Nordic international and
domestic human rights policies constitute a peculiar 'Nordic human
rights paradox' where norms are supported internationally while not
being implemented at home? Are the ideals of the national welfare
state and universal human rights compatible? In this book, the
authors take issue with previous scholarship and argue for the need
for careful historical investigations into how a broad range of
Nordic actors have contributed to creating international human
rights. This history is much more varied than what was previously
assumed. The lack of prior interest in the region means there are
several promising avenues for historical investigations of both the
Nordic countries in human rights history and the role of human
rights in the history of the region. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Nordic
Journal of Human Rights.
This book explores recent developments pointing towards a 'domestic
institutionalisation of human rights', composed of converging
international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic
institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems
approach. Building on new compliance theories, innovative
arrangements have resolutely appeared around the turn of the
millennium and some are now legally enshrined in human rights
treaties. In their introduction, the editors capture these
developments, their main elements and key points of debate. They
outline a research agenda aimed at structuring and generating
further attention from both academics and practitioners. As a
stepping stone, the book singles out the purposeful attempt by the
United Nations and others to frame these trends around the concept
of 'National Human Rights System'. The chapters assess various
models and cases put forward for such systems. Each chapter
highlights the specific forms of institutions being promoted and
their intended domestic interactions, and discusses how these
institutions are leveraged and strengthened by international
bodies. Authors critically review their implications for the future
of human rights, paving the way for additional research. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and
practices from the 1930s to present day. The authors use previously
unexplored archival materials to bring to light how a broad range
of Nordic actors have engaged with international human rights
globally and at a European level and how these norms have been
taken up and interpreted in the region. Do the Nordic countries
warrant the label 'global good Samaritans' in human rights
promotion? Is the Nordic welfare state a close to perfect
realisation of human rights norms? Or do Nordic international and
domestic human rights policies constitute a peculiar 'Nordic human
rights paradox' where norms are supported internationally while not
being implemented at home? Are the ideals of the national welfare
state and universal human rights compatible? In this book, the
authors take issue with previous scholarship and argue for the need
for careful historical investigations into how a broad range of
Nordic actors have contributed to creating international human
rights. This history is much more varied than what was previously
assumed. The lack of prior interest in the region means there are
several promising avenues for historical investigations of both the
Nordic countries in human rights history and the role of human
rights in the history of the region. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Nordic
Journal of Human Rights.
This book argues that inequality is not just about numbers, but is
also about lived, historical experience. It supplements economic
research and offers a comprehensive stocktaking of existing
thinking on global inequality and its historical development. The
book is interdisciplinary, drawing upon regional and national
perspectives from around the world while seeking to capture the
multidimensionality and multi-causality of global inequalities.
Grappling with what economics offers - as well as its blind spots -
the study focuses on some of today's most relevant and pressing
themes: discrimination and human rights, defences and critiques of
inequality in history, decolonization, international organizations,
gender theory, the history of quantification of inequality and the
history of economic thought. The historical case studies featured
respond to the need for wider historical research and to calls to
examine global inequality in a more holistic manner. The
Introduction 'Chapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality:
Introduction' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via
link.springer.com.
This book argues that inequality is not just about numbers, but is
also about lived, historical experience. It supplements economic
research and offers a comprehensive stocktaking of existing
thinking on global inequality and its historical development. The
book is interdisciplinary, drawing upon regional and national
perspectives from around the world while seeking to capture the
multidimensionality and multi-causality of global inequalities.
Grappling with what economics offers - as well as its blind spots -
the study focuses on some of today's most relevant and pressing
themes: discrimination and human rights, defences and critiques of
inequality in history, decolonization, international organizations,
gender theory, the history of quantification of inequality and the
history of economic thought. The historical case studies featured
respond to the need for wider historical research and to calls to
examine global inequality in a more holistic manner. The
Introduction 'Chapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality:
Introduction' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via
link.springer.com.
This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of
social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the
myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' - rights
that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus
stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights
stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In
tracing their long history across various global contexts, this
volume reveals how debates over social rights have often turned on
deeper struggles over social obligation - over determining who owes
what to whom, morally and legally. In the modern period, these
struggles have been intertwined with questions of freedom,
democracy, equality and dignity. Many factors have shaped the
history of social rights, from class, gender and race to religion,
empire and capitalism. With incomparable chronological depth,
geographical breadth and conceptual nuance, Social Rights and the
Politics of Obligation in History sets an agenda for future
histories of human rights.
This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international
human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the
Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other
contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost
exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging
Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it
was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their
breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and
religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core
group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely
Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the
norms upon which the international community today is built. Their
efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in
profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights
revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to
embrace human rights.
This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international
human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the
Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other
contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost
exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging
Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it
was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their
breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and
religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core
group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely
Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the
norms upon which the international community today is built. Their
efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in
profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights
revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to
embrace human rights.
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